Fresh off the long-awaited arrival of Zack Snyder’s Justice League (a.k.a. the fabled Snyder Cut), HBO Max has no need to appease fandom culture in April 2021. But the streaming service is gonna do it anyway!
The most notable new release for HBO Max this month is the HBO series The Nevers. This show, created by Joss Whedon, is set in a 19th century steampunk London and finds a sizable portion of the population (predominantly women) having been “Touched” by mysterious paranormal powers. There’s an interesting bit of irony at play here, as HBO Max is following up the Snyder Cut with a show created by his original Justice League replacement. Or at least there could have been an interesting bit of irony here, if Whedon had not bowed out from the show and been enthusiastically left out of the marketing material by HBO.
Aside from the awkward showrunning situation at The Nevers, HBO Max has quite a few other irons in the fire for April. The well-earned Infinity Train season 4 premieres on April 15. That will be followed up by the Kate Winslet-starring HBO miniseries Mare of Easttown on April 18. Not to be ignored is the movie side of things, with Mortal Kombat continuing WarnerMedia’s policy of releasing all 2021 films to HBO Max.
Meanwhile, The New Mutants will take a turn in the HBO Max library on April 10…for some reason. And the streaming services continue their game of Dark Knight Rises hot potato when the film premieres on HBO Max on April 17. Now all three Christopher Nolan’s Batman films can be streamed in their entirety. It will just take both Netflix and HBO Max subscriptions.
HBO Max New Releases – April 2021
April 1A Shock To The System, 1990 (HBO)Abandon, 2002 (HBO)Adam’s Rib, 1949All Is Lost, 2013 (HBO)Assume the Position with Mr. WuhlBarbarosa, 1982 (HBO)Black Dynamite, 2009Blindness, 2008 (HBO)The Bodyguard, 1992Boogie Nights, 1997Bringing Up Baby, 1938The Butcher’s Wife, 1991 (HBO)Caddyshack, 1980The Collection, 2012 (HBO)The Color Purple, 1985Dante’s Peak, 1997 (HBO)Dark Shadows, 2012 (HBO)Dead Silence, 2007 (HBO)Dirty Harry, 1971The Eagle Has Landed, 1977 (HBO)Early Man, 2018 (HBO)Easy Rider, 1969Ella Enchanted, 2004 (HBO)The Evil That Men Do, 1984 (HBO)Eye For An Eye, 1996 (HBO)Fear, 1996 (HBO)genera+ion, Season 1 Part One FinaleGhost Rider, 2007Goodfellas, 1990The Great Pottery Throwdown, Max Original Season 4 PremiereGreen Lantern, 2011Hardball, 2001 (HBO)Happy EndingsHaywire, 2012 (HBO)In & Out, 1997 (HBO)Kicking & Screaming, 2005 (HBO)King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, 2017 (HBO)Lassiter, 1984 (HBO)Leatherface Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, 1990 (HBO)Let’s Go To Prison, 2006 (HBO)The Longest Yard, 1974 (HBO)Made for Love, Max Original Series PremiereMan Up, 2015 (HBO)The Mask of Zorro, 1998The Man With The Iron Fists, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO)Missing In Action 2 – The Beginning, 1985 (HBO)Missing In Action, 1984 (HBO)My Super Ex-Girlfriend, 2006 (HBO)The NannyThe Natural, 1984Now, Voyager, 1942One Day, 2011 (HBO)Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, 1985 (HBO)Police Academy 3: Back In Training, 1986 (HBO)Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol, 1987 (HBO)Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach, 1988 (HBO)Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, 1989 (HBO)Police Academy: Mission To Moscow, 1994 (HBO)Primal Fear, 1996 (HBO)Reasonable Doubt, 2014 (HBO)Red Dawn, 1984 (HBO)The Return, 2006 (HBO)Risky Business, 1983 (HBO)Roger & Me, 1989Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939Sneakers, 1992 (HBO)Space Jam, 1996Speed 2 Cruise Control, 1997 (HBO)Spellbound, 2003 (HBO)Stuart Little, 1999The Shack, 2017 (HBO)The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, 2006 (Extended Version) (HBO)Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family, 2011Wanderlust, 2012 (HBO)The Warriors, 1979 (Director’s Cut) (HBO)The Watch, 2012 (HBO)White Noise, 2005 (HBO)The Wild Life, 2016 (HBO)Within, 2016 (HBO)Wolves At The Door, 2017 (HBO)
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April 2On the Spectrum
April 3Ted, 2012 (Unrated Version) (HBO)
April 4Q: Into The Storm, Documentary Series Finale (HBO)
April 5Hard, Season 2 Finale (HBO)
April 6Genndy Tartokovksy’s Primal, Season 1B
April 7Exterminate All the Brutes, Documentary Series Premiere (HBO)South Side, Season 1
April 9Intemperie (AKA Out in the Open), 2019 (HBO)The Other Two, Season 1A Tiny Audience, Season 2 Finale (HBO)
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April 10The New Mutants, 2020 (HBO)
April 11The Nevers, Series Premiere (HBO)
April 13Our Towns, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
April 15Infinity Train, Max Original Season 4 Premiere
April 16Mortal Kombat, Warner Bros. Film Premiere, 2021
April 17The Dark Knight Rises, 2012 (HBO)
April 18Mare of Easttown, Limited Series Premiere (HBO)
April 20Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)
April 221,2,3, All Eyes On Me, 2020 (HBO)First Ladies, 2020Princess Cut, 2020 (HBO)Rizo, 2020 (HBO)
April 23A Black Lady Sketch Show, Season 2 Premiere (HBO)El Robo Del Siglo (AKA Heist of the Century) (HBO)
April 24Dreamgirls, 2006 (HBO)
April 26The Artist, 2011
April 29Looney Tunes Cartoons, Season 1D
Leaving HBO Max – April 2021
April 11Reservoir Dogs, 1992
April 15Lego DC Shazam: Magic And Monsters!, 2020
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